From The Engine Room
If you’ve had problems connecting to this site in the last month or so, I apologize. My web hosting company, powweb.com, has somehow screwed up a service that I was really pleased with for the first year I used them. They’re apparently having trouble with their MySQL servers, where this blog resides, and the performance is all over the place, from instantaneous to non-existent. I chose them because they allow 20 gb of storage in their basic package, and I have a bunch of photos and video. Other hosts offer lots of bandwidth but not so much storage. Until you guys get your friends and relatives to obsess over reading me, bandwidth will never be a constraint here.
I’m going to give them another week or two, and then I’m going to move the domain somewhere else. Whatever I do, it should be pretty transparent to you. If you’ve got the time, though, I’d like to hear when you have problems getting here. I guess this is a little taste of what will happen if the telecoms are allowed to dismantle net neutrality.
Sorry for the hassle.
Editor’s Note: I just upgraded my Wordpress to version 2.2. I’ll have to rebuild my blogroll and banner pics, etc, but (wishful thinking?) it seems to be a little more responsive.
I never had any trouble until you posted this. Then I got an error message a couple of times. And, then, as you can see, I got in again.
Good luck.
I wondered what the problem was. Frequently it times-out loading the page. I blamed comcast on my end but it was a really slow load from (don’t tell anyone) work just now, too. That’s fairly typical behavior for sites that have loads of little javascripts running all over the page (think mommy-bloggers with their various blog-rolls and promo stickers) or huge photos, but that’s hardly the case with your page.
I started to post, saying I’ve never had any problems and I read your blog regularly and it wouldn’t let me post so I’ll edit that to say I almost never have any problems.
Chris (in VA)
We have been having trouble with our computer so I blamed us–but I have been having trouble with it loading except for today it worked.
I don’t recall any problems of any consequence, but then I dont’ recall my name from time to time, so my experience may be irrelevant. If I’ve had any problems at all, I’ve blamed them all on my local provider, where all blame really does belong. Again, though, I haven’t had problems, but I will probably tell my provider I have. Maybe my provider will give you a refund.
Thanks, all, for the guidance. It looks like the Wordpress upgrade was not a significant factor - it still hangs there like the red light at a Seattle intersection. I’m going to move the thing in the next few days.
Awaiting the triumphant rebirth…
I just added a caching plugin (no, I haven’t turned Perils into an ATM). The bad performance only happens when Wordpress hits the database. Lessee what that does.
I read your blog every night. I really enjoy it and wiould miss you if you lost your space.
Why didn’t I think of this before? Sick my mom on them!
Thanks, Mom, I’m not going to disappear, but I might move the site. It’ll still be called the same thing, with the same address.
I know, and you know, that you paid Mom to post her comment!
I am so glad to be able to access here- and leave a comment- Internet woes suck and are soooooo frustating…thanks for the welcome over at Watergaete Summer…I will be back…